Bearing Applications & Manufacturing Engineer

Bearing Applications & Manufacturing Engineer

Worcester, Massachusetts | Onsite | $80,000-$110,000 | Full-Time

A blended applications, product-design, and manufacturing-engineering role supporting custom bearings and stamped or machined components.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Mechanical Engineer to design and modify bearing components and assemblies while improving the manufacturing processes used to produce them. This person will translate customer requirements into practical designs, drawings, cost models, manufacturing plans, tooling concepts, work instructions, and production solutions.

The role works closely with Sales, Quality, toolmakers, machining, assembly, and press-room employees. The ideal candidate understands that a successful design must meet performance, tolerance, cost, tooling, quality, and production requirements—not simply look correct in CAD.

Why Join Us?

• Join a stable American manufacturer with roots dating to 1945.
• Work in a family-owned, approximately 110-person company without a large-corporate feel.
• Own work across customer applications, product design, tooling, manufacturing, quality, and launch.
• See designs move directly from engineering drawings into stamping, machining, assembly, heat treatment, and inspection.
• Partner closely with Sales, customers, toolmakers, operators, Quality, and leadership.
• Contribute to new products, intellectual property, Lean improvement, and long-term manufacturing capability.
• Competitive salary of $80,000-$110,000.

Core Responsibilities

Applications & Product Engineering

• Support Sales with bearing and assembly selection, design layouts, sales drawings, technical presentations, databases, and customer issue resolution.
• Develop and modify bearing components, assemblies, internal components, and vendor drawings.
• Review customer requirements and build-to-print designs for manufacturability.
• Perform engineering calculations, estimates, design reviews, updates, and technical investigations.
• Evaluate new materials, specifications, standards, and engineering practices.
• Apply Design for Manufacturability and Assembly principles to practical customer solutions.
• Support new-product development and intellectual-property growth.

Manufacturing & Tooling Engineering

• Develop and improve manufacturing, assembly, machining, stamping, and tooling methods for bearing components and assemblies.
• Create and release manufacturing plans, design controls, detailed work instructions, and engineering change notices.
• Design progressive and compound dies for bearing jackets, ball cases, races, and related formed components.
• Troubleshoot setup and production issues with assembly, machining, press-room, and toolroom employees.
• Develop cost models and support business cases for new opportunities.
• Resolve escalated technical issues based on performance, cost, quality, and schedule impact.
• Partner with Quality to define control plans and inspection methods.
• Participate in Kaizen events and implement Lean principles and technologies.

Project & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead engineering projects and coordinate employees at all levels to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Communicate technical requirements clearly to customers, Sales, Quality, Operations, suppliers, toolmakers, and production employees.
• Share best practices and maintain awareness of bearing, stamping, machining, manufacturing, and quality trends.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
• Mechanical design, drafting, and manufacturing-engineering capability.
• Proficiency reading blueprints, engineering drawings, tolerances, and specifications.
• Working knowledge of metal stamping and machining.
• Ability to design mechanical components, tooling, and manufacturable solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with customers and employees from the production floor through leadership.
• Self-motivated work style with strong attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bearing design, bearing applications, bearing manufacturing, or power-transmission experience.
• Assembly, machining, press-room, metal-stamping, and tool-and-die manufacturing experience.
• Progressive- and compound-die design experience.
• Design for Manufacturability and Assembly experience.
• Case-hardening heat-treatment knowledge.
• Lean, Kaizen, cost-modeling, control-plan, and engineering-change experience.
• AutoCAD and SolidWorks proficiency
• Microsoft Access and Excel experience.